[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Newburgh [NY] city residents briefed on new water filtration system"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Newburgh city residents briefed on new water filtration system

MId-Hudson News (NY)
January 9, 2018

NEWBURGH – Top officials of the state departments of environmental conservation and health assured residents of the City of Newburgh Monday night that the newly installed granulated carbon filtration system will be able to handle all contaminants found in the Washington Lake reservoir.

New City Councilman Jonathan Jacobson expressed concern about the system given that the Department of Defense has yet to take action to stop the contamination coming from the Stewart Air National Guard Base.

“I think our damages at minimum should be holing up forever to the New York City aqueduct,” Jacobson said. “I think that is what it has to be because I don’t think that we can ever be satisfied.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2018/January/09/Nbrg_water-09Jan18.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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